Chapter 798 — Mine Is the Fake One

When Kang Jingming saw that Wang Shubin had actually brought Guan Xin back, he was overjoyed. To stir Guan Xin's maternal instinct and win her sympathy, he began to wail and moan. "Ah, it hurts so much, I feel awful... my face... my legs..."

Guan Xin had not expected that a grown man like Kang Jingming could be so fragile, still lying there howling.

"It's bandaged quite nicely, isn't it? What do you mean no one's looking after him?" Guan Xin saw that both of Kang Jingming's legs had been set in plaster and splints, properly treated already. It was nothing at all like what Wang Shubin had described — no one attending to him.

"Well... I meant there's no one here for the follow-up care..." Wang Shubin gave a dry laugh. His thinking at the time had been simply to trick Guan Xin into coming first, and as for what happened after she arrived, he would play it by ear.

"His legs are no longer a matter of ordinary external injuries. They're too serious for that — they fall under orthopedic care now. That's not something I can handle; there are specialized orthopedic nurses for this," Guan Xin said. "I'll help him get in touch with an orthopedic nurse."

"Huh?" Kang Jingming was instantly dumbstruck. How was it too serious now? Before, a little scratch had been too minor, and now it was too severe? It had escalated all the way to the orthopedic department?

But this wasn't something he could control either — he hadn't wanted his legs broken!

Kang Jingming was furious. He truly wanted to curse those demolition men in the shantytown to hell. Why did they have to drop it on him so hard? If it had struck just a little lighter, Guan Xin would have been able to nurse him! How had he missed his chance with Guan Xin yet again? What rotten luck was this?

"Well... Young Master Ming's legs will naturally be handled by an orthopedic nurse, but what I meant was the wound on his head. The wound on his head is quite serious too. If it isn't treated properly and leaves a scar, what then?" Wang Shubin's eyes lit up, and he shifted his target to Kang Jingming's head. "Nurse Guan Xin, look how handsome Young Master Ming is, so elegant and dashing. If his face were ruined, he'd never be able to show himself in public again. We can't trust anyone else — only you, an acquaintance of ours!"

Hearing Wang Shubin's words, Kang Jingming was overjoyed. Wang Shubin really was a strategist — quick-witted as ever! He'd come up with a way to keep Guan Xin here just like that. Even Kang Jingming himself hadn't thought of it!

That was right — his legs were too serious, but his head wasn't. It was just a big gash, which was exactly within Guan Xin's scope of care, wasn't it? So he hastily chimed in. "Exactly, it's better to have one of our own handling it. Outsiders just aren't as careful. I don't want my face ruined!"

"Oh, I can't guarantee there won't be a scar," Guan Xin said with a curl of her lip. "I'm not Divine Doctor Kang. I don't have Divine Doctor Kang's Golden Wound Medicine. My family's Doctor Guan's wound medicine is all fake — it doesn't work. If you're afraid of a scar, you'd better apply some of Divine Doctor Kang's Golden Wound Medicine. It's very effective, and your family has plenty of it!"

"Gah?!" Kang Jingming suddenly remembered — wasn't his family's Divine Doctor Kang's Golden Wound Medicine the very nemesis of external injuries? And there was a mocking edge to Guan Xin's words. Kang Jingming knew it was a counterattack for what he had said in the bookstore that day!

Kang Jingming was filled with regret. That day in the bookstore, heaven knew what had gotten into him. He had actually forgotten about the relationship between Guan Xin and Doctor Guan and shot his mouth off, not only leaving Guan Xin with a bad impression — worst of all, once he had said it, there was no taking it back. He could hardly say that Doctor Guan was actually better than Divine Doctor Kang, could he? Wouldn't that be dragging his own family's name through the mud?

"All right, if there's nothing else, I'm leaving. Our hospital has limited resources and can't stock Divine Doctor Kang's Golden Wound Medicine. You'd better bring your own." With that, Guan Xin turned and walked out of the ward. By now she was certain: Kang Jingming was making a fuss over nothing and had deliberately sent Wang Shubin to fetch her. All that talk about no one looking after him was pure nonsense.

Kang Jingming lay on the hospital bed somewhat despondently. Why was he so unlucky? He had thought that once he dealt with Xiaofen, he could pursue Guan Xin smoothly. But now it seemed Guan Xin had a rather poor impression of him!

"Damn it, why is my luck so bad?" Kang Jingming cursed resentfully.

"Young Master Ming, I think it's because Guan Xin has already grown suspicious!" Wang Shubin knitted his brows and said cautiously. "When I went to find her earlier, she said to me very mockingly, 'Has the wound on your hand flared up again?' Clearly she doesn't quite believe in such coincidences — you getting sick and going to the hospital every day, with the timing so close together..."

"That's true!" Kang Jingming nodded. Thinking it over carefully, he really had been falling ill a bit too often lately. It was hard to avoid arousing suspicion! Any normal person would find it unbelievable! Yet Kang Jingming could not voice his misery: the previous two times had indeed been self-inflicted, but this time he had genuinely been injured in an accident!

Still, the lesson of the boy who cried wolf was a profound one, and now Guan Xin didn't believe him anymore! No matter how badly Kang Jingming was injured, in Guan Xin's eyes it was all an act, and there was nothing he could do about it!

"Young Master Ming, if this won't work, why don't we change tactics?" Wang Shubin said after a moment's hesitation.

"Change tactics? Change to what?" Kang Jingming grew somewhat irritated. "Then I'll have been injured for nothing? If this pain is so great, why don't you try it yourself?"

"Well... what to change to, we'll have to think about, but the current situation is that you're injured and Guan Xin doesn't believe it!" Wang Shubin said with a bitter smile.

Kang Jingming deflated at once. That was true — what good was suffering for nothing? Guan Xin didn't believe him now, she was already suspicious. If he kept at it, it would clearly backfire. It seemed he really would have to change his strategy!

But what strategy should he change to? Kang Jingming felt that all his old tricks for picking up women were useless now! Before, all he'd had to do was send flowers, spout sweet talk, put on a bit of a show of wealth, and take a girl shopping — she'd fall right into his hands!

But Guan Xin clearly was not buying any of it. The flowers were sent, and they had no effect; sweet talk seemed to leave her cold; and as for putting on airs, that went without saying. Guan Xin's family was comfortably off, so she certainly would not be short of the little money he had to buy her things.

"How about this — you go online and have a look, see if there are any good moves?" Kang Jingming had heard that plenty of idle fellows on the internet shared their woman-chasing experience in forums, but he himself rarely went online, and had no idea whether such a thing actually existed.

"That'll work too. I'll take a look in a bit!" Wang Shubin nodded. "See if there are any good methods. Though I have a feeling, Young Master Ming, that what you're lacking right now is a common topic with Guan Xin — when the two of you are together, there's nothing to talk about!"

"True enough. But she's a nurse — surely you're not suggesting I become a nurse too?" Kang Jingming frowned.